EPISODE 18: NOTHING IS GOOD OR BAD — ONLY THINKING MAKES IT SO

Nothing that happens to you is inherently good or bad. It's your thinking that makes it so. This isn't positive thinking. It's the most powerful reframe in human psychology.Shakespeare wrote it in Hamlet. The Stoics built an entire philosophy around this truth. Viktor Frankl survived the Nazi concentration camps and concluded: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."Key topics:Marcus Aurelius on choosing not to be harmedViktor Frankl on the space between stimulus and responseWhy the same event destroys one person and transforms anotherToday's Practice: Catch yourself labeling something as "bad." Pause. Ask: What else could this mean? How might this serve me?Master the mind. Your life will follow.